Faces of Civil War Nurses bull run Henley Fugate of the 63rd

Henley Fugate of the 63rd Tennessee Infantry

Vermonters in The Wilderness

others were released by sympathetic owners to serve the war effort

Four at Point Lookout

Marines from 1898 to 1939

Faces of Civil War Nurses bull run Henley Fugate of the 63rdA collection of rare archival images and biographical sketches of the dauntless women who served as nurses and caregivers during the Civil War. During the American Civil War, women on both sides of the conflict, radiating patriotic fervor equal to their male counterparts, contributed to the war effort in countless ways: forming charitable societies, becoming nurses, or even marching off to war as vivandires, unofficial attachs to the regiments. In